It isn’t the autumn that killed my Moto Z Force Droid Edition. It was the sudden cease on the finish. And even then, it took 5 of them. … And the display nonetheless did not crack.
I now have a zombie Moto Z Drive Droid Version. No, it isn’t the identify that killed it. It was the drop check. And whereas I am usually not a fan of killing a telephone simply to observe it die, we had good cause this time. Moto’s ShatterShield.
That is the multiple-layer system that it put in the Droid Turbo 2 — and now in Verizon’s Moto Z Pressure — to maintain the telephone’s display from shattering ought to it’s dropped. That does not imply it is a rugged telephone. That does not imply it is best to repeatedly drop it onto concrete. Meaning ought to the telephone take a spill — like all telephones do sooner or later — the display ought to survive.
Sure, there’s nice print. (There’s all the time nice print.) And it reads thusly:
The show and embedded lens are warranted towards shattering and cracking for 4 (four) years from the unique date of buy; scratches or different injury to the protecting lens isn’t coated by this guarantee, however ought to all the time be in place to stop scratches and different injury to the underlying elements. This telephone isn’t shockproof or designed to face up to all injury from dropping. All different guarantee exclusions, together with scratches and different beauty injury, intentional injury or abuse, regular put on and tear and different limitations apply.
So I wasn’t stunned after one-two-three-four-five drops that the display give up working. ShatterShield is not meant for the kind of abuse I subjected it to. (The telephone nonetheless boots, truly. It nonetheless works. It is simply as if the show turned indifferent.)
Nevertheless it didn’t shatter. It seems beat to hell — as a result of it was. However ShatterShield did its job.